I'm playing in Monmouth when a young mum asks: ‘What is it? And is it in B flat like my clarinet? I used to play, but I’ve stopped for so long.’
It is a soprano sax, young lady, and in B flat. Now return home and lift that clarinet to your lips once again.
On the basis that B flat is an important note in the comos (NASA is said to have registered the ‘sound’ of a Black Hole as B flat – 57 octaves below middle C) I try playing on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path near Strumble Head (above). Surprise! Two dark heads bob up in the sea water before me. Looks like a couple of grey seals attracted by the sound. I play on for ten minutes then take up my binoculars.
Ah, it is just a pair of seaweedy bouys.
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